STOW, OH — At the Super Bowl XLIX halftime show on February 1, 2015, at University of Phoenix Stadium, GRAMMY® winner Lenny Kravitz performed using Audio-Technica Artist Elite® 5000 Series Wireless with AEW-T6100a Hypercardioid Dynamic Handheld Microphone/Transmitter. More information at www.lennykravitz.com and www.audio-technica.com.
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OLD LYME, CT – This year, Sennheiser, which remains a family-owned and operated company, is celebrating its 70th anniversary.
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LOS ANGELES, CA – Furniture building isn’t the only demanding aspect of Ellen’s Design Challenge, a four-week-long HGTV reality show produced by Ellen DeGeneres, which began airing on January 26. In addition to the six competitors who are trying to make it to the end – using saws, drills and welders, among other noisy tools, to complete the weekly tasks – the audio team faced the daunting task of providing clear, crisp audio that is not interrupted by the hum of the machines. The solution was found with DPAd:screet™ 4061 Omnidirectional Miniature Microphones.
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WINNIPEG, Manitoba, Canada — For the MTS Centre, home to the NHL’s Winnipeg Jets, Sound Art Winnipeg installed a Yamaha CL5 Digital console along with two Rio1608-D input/output boxes. The sports arena seats more than 15,000 and hosts a variety of indoor sporting and entertainment events.
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To strengthen its support for system integrators, Meyer Sound has joined the Crestron Integrated Partner Program. The result is a suite of Crestron modules in development to allow customers to seamlessly implement Meyer Sound self-powered loudspeaker systems in environments controlled by Crestron products.
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ENFIELD, CT – CREC Public Safety Academy opened their modern new facility in September 2014 with audio systems that support the school’s career-oriented education for grades 6 through 12 in law enforcement, fire sciences, emergency medicine and other safety and security fields.
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LONDON – Californian band, Of Mice & Men, recently supported Linkin Park on the European leg of the Hunting Party arena tour, with Allen & Heath GLD-80 mixers performing both FOH and Monitor duties.
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PORTLAND, OR — Ear Trumpet Labs, a privately owned company in Portland OR that makes handcrafted microphones, today announced the release of a new stereo microphone, Evelyn. Evelyn is a stereo mic consisting of two closely matched medium-large diaphragm capsules mounted in individually pivoting head baskets spaced at the correct distance for the ORTF stereo recording technique. Both the capsules and the JFET transistors for each side of the stereo pair are exactingly hand-matched for perfect stereo imaging. The electronics are hand-wired using the finest components, and the result is spectacularly natural stereo sound.
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OSLO, Norway – Norway’s Susanna, one of the most original artists currently working in the Nordic music scene, has been making the most of DPA Microphones’ d:facto Vocal Microphone that she acquired last year from the company’s Norwegian distributor Lyd-Systemer AS. The mic was used during her recent tour, which visited U.S., Canada, Norway, Sweden, Germany, Austria and the U.K.
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LOS ANGELES, CA — All things come to those who wait, as Mitchell Frank can attest. Owner of the newly revived Regent Theater in downtown Los Angeles, it took Frank almost 10 years of dreaming about it, acquiring a long-term lease for it in February 2012, then waiting through 19 months of construction before the Regent finally reopened last November as a premier venue in LA’s reemerging downtown music scene. Originally built in the 1920s, the 1,100-capacity venue has been renovated with an eclectic combination of preserved historic architectural details and up to the minute furnishings and amenities – including a HARMAN Professional audio system based around JBL VTX Series line arrays and Crown I-Tech HD Series amplifiers.
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LONDON – One of London Mayfair’s most famous and finest dining establishments has received a major £3 million renovation and refurbishment, with a discreet yet powerful audio system designed and installed by SSE Audio Group. Quaglino’s, the iconic 240-cover restaurant and late-night venue was originally opened by Giovanni Quaglino in 1929 and is now owned and operated by D&D London – a long-term client of SSE Installations. The establishment re-opened in October 2014 after a redesign by leading high-end hospitality designers, Russell Sage Studio.
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LONDON – Following a successful U.K. and European arena tour in 2012, Live Nation and SJM Concerts announced another outing for Jeff Wayne’s Musical Version of The War of The Worlds. The production returned for the sixth and final time in late 2014 early 2015, with RG Jones Sound Engineering producing.
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